{"id":122799,"date":"2021-01-04T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/professor_lupo_ocean"},"modified":"2021-01-04T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T16:00:00","slug":"mini-review-professor-lupo-ocean-a-short-but-sweet-puzzle-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/04\/mini-review-professor-lupo-ocean-a-short-but-sweet-puzzle-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini Review: Professor Lupo: Ocean &#8211; A Short But Sweet Puzzle Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2605a2dbc62ce\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2605a2dbc62ce\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed pictures\" id=\"screenshots\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/screenshots\/111528\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/screenshots\/111528\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Lupo: Ocean Review - Screenshot 1 of 6\"><\/a><\/aside>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t played <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/professor_lupo_and_his_horrible_pets\">Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets<\/a><\/strong>, then worry not. Its sequel, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/professor_lupo_ocean\">Professor Lupo: Ocean<\/a><\/strong>, carries on the core gameplay mechanics of its predecessor, but familiarity with the first game is not essential to enjoy this one. Taking place within a space station submerged in water, Professor Lupo: Ocean is a puzzle game through and through, although one that ends rather too quickly.<\/p>\n<p>The gameplay centres around your ability to navigate the maze-like structure of the space station, utilising switches and the flow of water to pass through barriers and reach the end of each level, all the while avoiding the various creatures roaming the corridors. You have direct control of a character simply referred to as a Clone, and you can also move the camera through the areas and activate switches independently, giving you control over the environment itself.<\/p>\n<p>The story itself is mostly told through dialogue sequences as you progress through the space station. It feels rather throwaway and doesn\u2019t hold much of a candle to the comparatively superior puzzle gameplay, but there\u2019s enough here to keep you entertained. We particularly enjoyed the notion that upon death, you\u2019re actually replaced by an entirely different clone. Quite morbid, in a way.<\/p>\n<p>Surviving each stage requires you to take heed of the enemy creatures\u2019 movement and attack patterns; for example, one such creature is a slow-moving blob outside of water, but when submerged can morph into a shark with lightning-fast reflexes and deadly teeth. Using the flow of water is crucial to your survival, though it can quite as easily cause your death and plunge you into a wall of spikes if you activate it at the wrong time.<\/p>\n<p>As a puzzle game, Professor Lupo: Ocean is relatively easy to pick up, though proves itself to be quite tricky as you progress. The controls can be quite fiddly at times; you\u2019ll often mistakenly take one or two steps too many, walking straight into the mouth of a foul beast. During moments when you\u2019re against the clock, these mistakes unfortunately happen all too often.<\/p>\n<p>Visually, the characters and environments are well designed, and although the graphics lack the polish and sheen of big-budget titles, there\u2019s plenty of personality on display whether you\u2019re playing on handheld or the big screen. Its score and voiceover work are similarly impressive, with ambient music perfectly suited to the game\u2019s setting, and its characters fully voiced from start to finish.<\/p>\n<p>Although not quite as meaty as its older sibling, Professor Lupo: Ocean boasts the same engaging puzzle gameplay, albeit with often unwieldy controls. It\u2019s a short game, and not one you\u2019re likely to come back to soon after completion, but with a relatively small price tag, it\u2019s one you\u2019d do well to pick up if you\u2019re after an original puzzle title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven\u2019t played Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets, then worry not. Its sequel, Professor Lupo: Ocean, carries on the core gameplay mechanics of its predecessor, but familiarity with the first game is not essential to enjoy this one. Taking place within a space station submerged in water, Professor Lupo: Ocean is a puzzle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}